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Thursday, March 11, 2010

For Your Edification

I have decided to join this new thing called "formspring."

Apparently it allows people to ask you random questions, and you answer them. I like that concept. So, if you're interested in my thoughts, but don't really want to comment on the blog, please hit me up on formspring. The question box is on the right.

[T]he Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.